PolygonFlux lets you experience the flow of energy inside a polygon. In simplest terms, it traces the path of a point bouncing around inside a polygon of your choice, generating a pretty pattern.
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Every school child has played with a pool ball on a rectangular table or a carom puck on a square board. What would change if the table were a triangle or a pentagon? PolygonTrix is a game that s...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

A teaching unit on fractals for students and teachers in grades 4 to 8, that adults are free to enjoy, designed to introduce students to fractals and the underlying mathematics. It focuses on fractals...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Students investigate the models by which fractal patterns aggregate. Several questions are posed and different activities are suggested to go along with the Diffusion-Limited Aggregation applet.More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

In this activity, students will construct a golden section and a golden rectangle and study their characteristics and connections with the Fibonacci series. They will import pictures from the Internet...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

In this activity, students create a geometric dartboard where they will explore ﬁnding the theoretical and experimental probability of a “dart” hitting one of their shapes within the dartboard....More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

Buffon's Needle is one of the oldest problems in the field of geometrical probability. It was first stated in 1777. It involves dropping a needle on a lined sheet of paper and determining the probabil...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

In this activity, students develop the Fibonacci sequence and use a spreadsheet to investigate several of its interesting properties, drawing on a recursive formula to discuss arithmetic and geometric...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This lesson plan provides a practical application of fractals for students: the coastline. Teachers give students different hands-on activities as well as work with a Java applet that shows the fracta...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This activity is designed to further the work of the Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion lesson by showing students other classical fractals, the Sierpinski Triangle and Carpet, this time involvin...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This lesson is designed to get students to think about several of the concepts from fractals, including recursion and self similarity. The mathematical concepts of line segments, perimeter, area and i...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This lesson is designed to continue the discussion of fractals started in the Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion, Geometric Fractals and Fractals and Chaos Game lessons. Students are introduced t...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

The following discussions and activities are designed to lead the students to explore the number patterns and fractal properties of Pascal's Triangle. Basic arithmetic operations of multiplication and...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

This activity is designed to further the work of the Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion, Geometric Fractals, and Fractals and the Chaos Game lessons by leading the students to build a working def...More: lessons, discussions, ratings, reviews,...

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